Sick, Stupid and Sterile: The 50th Anniversary of ‘Silent Spring’
In September 1962 – 50 years ago this month – a book was published which changed the way we looked at the post-World War Two chemical revolution. Rachel Carson’s Silent…
In September 1962 – 50 years ago this month – a book was published which changed the way we looked at the post-World War Two chemical revolution. Rachel Carson’s Silent…
Behind the questions that people ask are assumptions that are often more revealing than the questions themselves. One of these revealing questions appeared in “Collected Wisdom”, a weekly newspaper column…
It was a more progressive development of the Tar Sands that happened on Lougheed’s watch. What a pity his policy wasn’t continued, for he stood squarely for this project be…
Freelance writer and researcher Joyce Nelson connects the dots between the approval of the Jumbo Glacier Resort proposal in the Kootenays, a controversial trade deal between Canada and the European…
Does the fact I recognize corporations do what is in their financial self-interest – that the onus of demonstrating the environmental safety of mines, fish farms, pipelines, tankers falls not…
The NDP are getting a free ride – at least they certainly are on the energy file. I must ask again: Why are they not condemning the proposed twinning of…
If Dr. Richard Muller, a professor of physics from the University of California, Berkeley, is not the last of the global climate change skeptics, he should be. For years he…
I have been to a number of joint federal/provincial hearings and I’d rather have a root canal without novocaine than attend another. The chair and the company representative are joined…
One of the most powerful and pervasive of our recent inventions has been the Internet, the digital magic that has compressed time into microseconds and space into irrelevance. The distance…
Three engineers including two professors emeritus from UBC have verified what I and others have been saying for some time. An article in the September 1 Vancouver Sun tells us…
We are now seeing the public relations world at work. I know something about the philosophy behind Public Relations companies and their siamese twin, the advertising company. If you want…
I simply cannot see how, short of a fluke, Christy Clark can lead her party to victory in May 2013. She didn’t have a chance from the start. With but…
“Dilbit” is a contraction of “diluted bitumen”, a little word loaded with controversy that has recently entered the English vocabulary. This is because “bitumen”, a word in long existence, has…
After considerable due diligence it seems the Official Opposition has thoroughly aired the issue through its team of legal beagles and finally we have seen a move on the issue.…
As big of a game-changer as oil pipelines and tankers would be for BC, one could argue that the collection of proposed natural gas-related developments on the table is, taken…
Rafe Mair takes on an op-ed by Gordon Gibson, in favour of David Black’s Kitimat refinery proposal, published in the Globe and Mail. He identifies this proposal as “idiotic”, and…
In this piece, the first of a series of three, we explore why a National Energy Program is political suicide, yet something called a National Energy Strategy is all the…
Vancouver is the latest city to consider costly preventative measures that should reduce the astronomical costs associated with more active weather. The city is still stinging from a 2006 windstorm…
Check out this interview from Aug. 15 on Vancouver Co-op Radio’s “Discussion”, with host Charles Boylan. Guest Damien Gillis and Boylan cover a wide range of topics relating to energy…
One must, I suppose, take newspaper tycoon David Black’s offer to build a refinery near Kitimat seriously, although the idea is preposterous on several fronts. For openers, he doesn’t tell…